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Stress is an increasing cause of mental illness and health issues which doesn’t comes to notice unless it becomes threat. Stress that’s left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Follow these little steps in your regular life as a routine to de-stress your body, mind and soul:

Early To Bed and Early To Rise:Try to set a schedule of yourself and live a disciplined life. Working till late nights and waking up late can not only disturb your metabolism, but also disturbs your overall routine. Try to set a fixed time to sleep and leave bed on time. Your sleep cycle should be complete and you must make sure you have taken enough sleep. You will feel stress free.

Meditate:This will help you understand thoughts that are crossing your mind. It can be worry of future or regret of past. Try to focus on your breathe during meditation and you will experience utmost difference like from unhappy to happy, negative to positive, hopeless to hopeful. Practice this at least 10-15 minutes a day and feel the difference.

Eat Healthy:Follow a proper diet plan that includes protein, fiber, carbs, and fats to keep you moving and makes you feel light.

Listen To Music:Music is a great stress reliving therapy. Whenever you feel low, plug in your favourite music it will make a great difference. Try this!! It really works in my case.

Follow Your Passion:Take out some time for your hobbies and things that makes you happy. It can be anything like painting, craft work, sports activities, gym workouts, yoga sessions, dance, swimming. These activities will not only give you adrenaline rush but also boosts your self-confidence.

Do Some Charity: Believe me, helping a needy person will give you so much relieve and happiness that can make you feel really positive towards life. Life is full of ups and downs; you must help someone who really needs your attention and care.

Go Out with Your Pet: Spending time with pets is the most relieving moment. Pets are so loyal and selfless, they will do anything to attract your attentions and this will ultimately divert your mood and will drag you away from worries.

Get Away From Social Media:Technology has overtaken nearly all the one-on-one conversations. We spend less time talking to person in front of us than on the other side of our phone. Mobile phone and internet has taken over all the socialising activities. Even kids of current generation are so much engraved in technology that they don’t even care about real world. They are miles away from the reality check. In our times back in 90’s we made friends and use to gather outside our colony in evenings to play around and we use to wait for those outdoor sessions. There no one was rich or poor among us; we didn’t judge friends on the basis of their mobile phone brands or versions. Technology has completely overtaken real feelings and sentiments of human beings.

Family First:Spend quality time with your family. You never know how long have been they waiting for you. Take care of your real once. Keep your mobile phones and laptops aside and talk to them, listen to their feelings, their conversation. May be that’s going to bring the real you because for the world you have been wearing a mask and pretending to what you are not. With your family, you will bring the real you, which will ultimately make relieve you from all the worries which you have been going on since long.

Exercise/ Workout: Take out time to workout at least 45 minutes to 1 hour a day. Workout can not only improve your physical ability but also enhances your mental ability also gives you strength to stay positive throughout the day.

Flat Stomach and ripped abs are dreams for many. These are the top 10 abs workouts for men and women both. Make sure you work on them regularly to get desired results:

Plank: This is a core strength Abs Workout that strengthens your inner core transverse abdominis, multifidus, diaphragm, and pelvic floor. Take a Mat and start on the floor on your hands and knees. Lower your forearms to the floor with elbows positioned under your shoulders and your hands shoulder-width apart make a 90-degree angle. Step your feet back, one at a time. Maintain a straight line from heels through the top of your head, looking down at the floor, with gaze slightly in front of your face. Now, tighten your abs and hold. Make sure your head, spine and hips are in lined. Hold on for 15 Sec at least initially.

Plank

Lateral Plank Workout: Get into plank position. Lift one leg and tap it out to the side about 12 inches from the stationary leg. Return to starting position and repeat on the right side. That’s one rep. Repeat it at least 5 times from each side.

Lateral Plank

Lateral Plank Walk: Start in plank position. Step your left foot and hand to your left simultaneously. Then step your right foot and hand to the left so that you’re back in plank position. Repeat it at least 5 times each side.

Plank Walk

4. Plank To Push-up: Get in a push-up position, but bend your one hand elbow and rest your weight on your other forearms. Your body should form a straight line from your shoulders to your ankles. Press your body up into the top position of a pushup by extending your arms one at a time. Pause, then reverse the movement and return to your elbows. That’s one rep.

Planks

5. Plank Knee Taps: Get into plank position. Shift your weight back of your feet as you reach your right hand to touch your left knee. Return to the starting position and repeat, again reach your right knee through left hand. That’s one rep.

Plank Knee Tap

6. Sweep Plank: Assume a pushup position with your arms completely straight. Your body should form a straight line. Slowly raise your left knee to your right elbow and swipe back to left side. Hold, and return to the starting position. Repeat with the right leg. That’s one rep.

Sweep Plank

7. Plank Jack: Start in a plank position. Jump your feet out to the sides, making sure your upper body doesn’t move. Jump back your feet to the starting position.

Plank Jack

8. Dumbbell Drag: If you don’t have dumbbells you can use a bottle filled with water that can act as dumbbell. Get into a plank position with a dumbbell on the outside of your left arm. Pick up the weight with your right arm and drag it to your right side while keeping your body straight. Then, grab the weight with your left arm and drag it to your left side. That’s one rep.

Dumbbell Drag

9. Shoulder Taps: Get in to Pushup position and lift your left hand off the floor and touch your right shoulder, keeping your hips stable. Place your left arm back down and touch your right hand to your left shoulder.

Shoulder Tap

10. Rotating (T) – Extension: Get in a pushup position. Keeping your arms straight and your core engaged, shift your weight onto your left arm, rotate your torso to the right, and lift your arm toward the ceiling so that your body forms a T. Hold for few seconds and return to the start. Repeat on the other side.

Rotating T

Try and make out time for yourself and make a practice to work out at least 45 minutes to 1 hour a day. Apart from regular workout routine it is also necessary to keep a check on your diet plan as well. Always remember that workout and diet goes hand in hand that means with regular workout you must avoid junk and processed foods, as alone workout cannot give you enough results. You must consult you nutritionist to provide you a diet plan according to your body type. Also never starve yourself; it’s merely an illusion that without having proper food you would make the mark. That’s really untrue, starving makes your body weak and feeble. Follow a proper diet plan that includes protein, fiber, carbohydrates, etc to provide you energy and all essential supplements to body.

According to a survey, hemoglobin levels in females are more frequently low as compared to males. Monthly menstrual cycle is the main factor due to which hemoglobin counts are low in female. Hence, in order to increase the hemoglobin count in blood there are few major points that you should consider. So let’s discuss:

Include Iron Rich Source: Green leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale, swiss chard, collard and beet greens which are very good sources of iron and should be included in diet. Legumes, nuts, lentils and peas are also great source of iron. Pumpkin, sesame, hemp and flaxseeds are the seeds richest in iron. Apple, banana, pomegranate are fruits with high iron content.

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Include Vitamin C Diet: Vitamin C helps in absorption of these irons in gastrointestinal tract. Sometimes even people who regularly consume iron food in diet are still deficient in hemoglobin count as there body is not capable of absorbing them efficiently hence, it to avoid such kind of deficiency one should include vitamin C in diet for proper absorption of iron. Vitamin C rich foods includes: Guava, Oranges, Lemon, Lime, Black Currant, Red Pepper, Kiwi, Green Peppers, Strawberries, etc.

Avoid Blocker: Tea, Coffee, alcohol consumption may lead to blockage of iron absorption in body and hence lower the hemoglobin count. So, it is advised to avoid such iron blockers in diet.

Workout: Keep yourself active with regular workout or yoga session of about 30-45 minutes. This will help you to stay fit and lead a healthy life. Secondly early morning wake up will give an additional support to your blood to generate hemoglobin in a faster way.

Normal ranges: Pregnancy may cause low hemoglobin levels.

A doctor will check for low hemoglobin with a blood test.Low hemoglobin is diagnosed.

For a man It should be more than 13.5 grams per deciliter (g/dL) of hemoglobin in the blood.

For a woman it should be more than 12 grams per deciliter (g/dL) of hemoglobin in the blood.

A person may have a low hemoglobin level for a variety of reasons, including:

iron-deficiency anemia

pregnancy

problems with the liver or kidneys

chronic disease

It is possible to have naturally reduced hemoglobin levels without an underlying cause. Some may even have low hemoglobin and experience no symptoms or indications.With a doctor’s guidance, a person can boost their levels of hemoglobin to fall within a normal range. Normal ranges are:

13.5 to 17.5 g/dL for men

12 to 15.5 g/dL for women

Appropriate hemoglobin levels for children vary depending on age. Anyone concerned about a child’s hemoglobin levels should speak with a doctor.People with very low hemoglobin levels may need additional treatment if taking supplements and changing the diet do not show sufficient results.

So people deficient with hemoglobin first advice to consult your doctor and get best of it from them. Apart from doctor the main thing you should focus is your diet and routine to have your meal. Once you fix all these factors you can go as per the instruction given above and make your diet plan accordingly.

This article will help you to control the hemoglobin level in your blood and for more you can also have different varieties of smoothies

We all are aware of the fact that our body consists of various toxins due to our number of bad habits. There are a numerous habits which we follow everyday and hence end up in accumulation of toxins in body and various vital organs which may in future lead to numerous complications. Hence to get rid of toxins and heavy metals from body, detox pads can be used.

How to use Detox Patches?

The detox patches ( foot detox patch) are available with detox pads that contain selected ingredients that may pull impurities out of our system. Apply detox pads on to the adhesive end of detox patches and stick this at the foot sole. It is advised to leave it overnight and check the impurity level the next morning.

Foot patch before applicationFoot patch after application

Where to apply the Detox Patches?

It is advised to apply these patches at the sole of foot as we all are aware of the fact that most of the acupressure points are present at foot area and hence it is the most preferable area to apply these foot detox patch. Apart from the foot, back of knee, armpit, and palms can also be the sticky zones for these detox patches.

Acupressure points

How long should these detox patches to be worn?

It is advised to leave these patches overnight as it will give effective results after the application of 7-8 hours. Hence overnight is preferred. It also results in proper extraction of impurities from specific area.

Monsoon is the season enjoyed by all of us and brings life to wrinkle and dry plants. Apart from its providing relief from grueling heat it also brings much water borne disease. Typhoid and diarrhea are most common among them. This list also follows malaria, dengue and chikangunya. These diseases are spread by the mosquitoes that breed and multiply during this season. Let’s discuss the ways to stay healthy during this season:

Keep Hydrated: This monsoon keep yourself hydrated in order to flush off the toxins from body. It will also help you to stay safe from dehydration. Intake water as much as possible or take some oral health supplements in order to keep your self hydrated.

Increase Vitamin C Intake: increase the consumption of Vitamin C containing foods. Include citrus fruits to your diet in order to boost your immune system. It will also help to fight off infections caused by many virus or bacteria produced in Monsoon.

Take Shower if you get wet in Rain: People enjoy rainy season as the shower brings happiness and relief from grueling heat. Most of us enjoy sprinkles of rain but on the other hand it may also lead to many diseases. Hence to avoid getting ill once should immediately take shower as it will normalize temperature and also flush germs. Doctors always suggest that whenever you come from outside in rain, you should have immediate shower. Most of the time in industrial area, industrial waste in air pollutes the cloud mixing with it and hence pollutes the rain water. So whenever you get wet in that rain, your skin get infected due to chemicals. So in that case also you should wash your body.

Mosquito Repellents: Make sure you take all the necessary precautions to stay protected from mosquitoes and diseases spread through them. Spray Mosquito repellents, apply mosquito repellent creams. Try to keep your surrounding neat and clean. Don’t allow water to accumulate near you. It will become the breeding ground for them. Better install net in all windows of your house so that no mosquitoes can enter from there. Always use mosquito net while sleeping and keep your kids inside it as much time as possible.

Avoid Water clogging near your area: Make sure there is no accumulation of water near your home or working place as it may lead to many water borne disease. Make proper drainage system to avoid such accumulation of water. Spray insecticides in regular interval of time and call pest control persons to check it.

Don’t Enter an AC room immediately: Always remember to normalize your body temperature before suddenly entering into an AC room as it may lead to illness. As the temperature out side will vary from inside it will give you sudden shock for this sudden temperature variation. Most of us don’t even bother this things and ignore it. This is very dangerous for our body.

Water Plays a very important role during Monsoon.

Wash Uncooked Food: It is always suggested to wash uncooked food and fruits properly so as to get rid of the germs. If Possible try to wash it with either RO water or warm water. These water kill the germs immediately and make your food absolutely germs free.

Boost Immunity: Include garlic, pepper, ginger, and turmeric, coriander in your diet as it helps in reducing indigestion problems and improves your immune system. As we all know garlic , ginger, turmeric and coriander has amazing properties to fight against cold. Most of the medicines contain these ingredients. It is always advisable to have turmeric with milk whenever you suffer from cold. Ginger and garlic are always a best home medicine in cough.

Avoid Street Foods: Monsoon is the season where the chances of getting ill increases due to water borne diseases, the chances of getting ill also increases if we have street foods. They are not protected from flies and other bugs that sit and destroy the hygienic content. The water used can also be contaminated. The hawkers never use precaution to avoid such kind of infections. Hence, it is always advisable to avoid such kind of street foods mainly when it is monsoon.

Infused water is the new trend to keep your body hydrated and healthy with proper supply of nutrients, minerals, vitamins, etc. Most of the people find plain water to be boring and hence difficult to consume as per the body requirement. Hence to overcome such problems infused water has been introduced. The advantages of these infused water is that it contains all the natural fruits, herbs and spices to add on the flavor to water.

Infused water has come into light because of the fact it doesn’t have any additives, extra sweeteners or flavoring agents added to it. Hence, it doesn’t harm body and maintains proper supply of required nutrients to it.

How To prepare Infused Water?

Preparation of infused water is very easy; it only requires a jar or an infuser bottle with normal or cold water whichever preferred along with some citrus fruits, spices (cinnamon, jalapeno), mint leaves, etc.

Slice the hard fruits such as apples in a much thinner sections so as to easily release its flavor.

Crush fibrous ginger root, rosemary, and lemongrass with a muddler or wooden spoon; tear or crush leafy herbs like mint, basil, and cilantro to release their oils.

Infused water should not be kept at normal temperature for more than 2 hours. Refrigerate it in fridge and store it for further use.

Make sure you peel off the citrus fruits after 4 hours. Otherwise it may add bitter taste to flavor, also fresh cut citrus fruits can be replaced in order to make the water look good.

This water can also be stored up to 3 days by straining out the solids and then refrigerating for up to 3 days.

Telehealth and Telemedicine are the latest technology for assistance of healthcare. Its objective is to reach distance or remote areas through telecommunication and information technology. It will assist in providing help to rural area or distant people who need medical guidance immediately. It helps in effective communication between a patient and a medical professional through transmission of data and medical guidance by video conferencing, telephone, mobile app, etc. Fastest digitalization and internet usage, smartphones and webcam has also gained attention. It acts as a driving force to help medical professionals and patients to connect effectively.

Types of Telemedicine:

There are three types of telemedicine and telemedicine categories: Store- and- forward, remote patient monitoring and interactive services. Let’s discuss in detail:

Store-and-Forward: In this type the medical reports (lab reports, medical images or biosignals) is directly transferred to the concerned doctor. Then the doctor connects with its patient and guide him. It does not require the presence of both parties at the same time. In this telemedicine category the clinician requires to consult previous history of medical reports.

Remote Monitoring: This is for chronic disease monitoring such as diabetes, blood pressure, asthma, etc. It is a self monitoring way to keep an eye upon your own disease through monitoring devices. It is also helpful for clinicians to monitor a patient remotely.

Real Time Interactieve: This needs the help of electronic configuration such as webcam for video conferencing in order to be available to face to face interaction through digitalization. It doesn’t need physical presence of patient near the doctor. Thus it can overcome the fear of meeting a physician or visiting hospital. This interaction is possible even sitting at your home or wherever you feel comfortable. The physical gets available through electronic devices and effectively interact from distance.

Pros of Telemedicine:

Telemedicine can prove as blessings for those who can’t connect physically to medical professionals and have an emergency.

Saves Time: It saves time from visiting clinics or hospitals and waiting for their turn. It can prove to be a boon for the rural areas or the distant people to cut the travelling time and expense and get emergency service.

Immediate Access: Rural areas people find this technology to be very fruitful as they get easy access and advice for medical help through different communication ways.

Reduction in No Shows: Through this technology there can be drastic reduction of cancellation of appointment or no shows. People find it very easy way of interaction and efficiently discuss there problems without any concerns.

Cons of Telemedicine:

As we all know that every thing has its own pros and cons. So telemedicine have few cons. Let’s have a look:

Lack of Digitalization: Not all the rural areas are fully digitalised and people are not educated enough to understand the importance of telemedicine.

Network Issues: Network fluctuations are the major area of concer Lack of proper network coverage can lead to frequent call drops and hence interrupt the discussion.

Issue of Licence: Few states doesn’t provide license to telemedicine as the need offline documents of physicians and does not allow online prescription.

Castor oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of castor plants. They are commonly called Ricinus communis. This oil is generally colour-less to pale yellow in colour. Since castor oil hair numerous amazing medicinal benefits, it’s demand and popularity is increasing constantly. The majority of its nutritional content is made up of ricinoleic acid, omega-6 and 9 fatty acids, vitamin E, and minerals.

Castor Oil for SKIN:

Castor oil has antibacterial, antiseptic, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties due to which it is strongly recommended in case of wound, burns, acne, for dry skin as well it has proved to be beneficial. There is no fear to apply this oil on face as it not only enhances blood circulation but also treats acne and pimple problems.

Castor Oil for Healthy Hair:

The oil is rich in protein that helps in hair growth. Oil not only enhances the growth but also provides strength and volume to hair. It also fights against scalp infections and also helps battle infections such as folliculitis, a condition that causes inflammation of the hair follicles.
The ricinoleic acid controls the pH and helps in prevention of scalp infections. and hence improves blood circulation. The omega 9 also helps to reduce split ends, controls hair breakage, conditions and moisturizes your hair. It also helps in removal of dandruff by maintaining proper moisture content. It has also proved to be beneficial in prevention from premature graying of hair.

Castor Oil for Ring Worm:

the oil contains Undecylenic acid that helps to treat ringworms.

Castor Oil for Wounds:

The antiseptic, antimicrobial, anti-viral and anti-fungal properties of this oil helps in treatment of individual from cuts, wounds and scratches.

Castor Oil for Joint Pain:

The anti-inflammatory properties of castor oil helps in treatment of Joint Pain and arthritis.

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Castor Oil for Stomach Cleansing:

It has detoxification properties that helps from intestinal problems like bloating, acidity, constipation and irritated bowels

Treats Scalp Infections

Scalp infection can cause major hair problems like bald patches, dandruff, and an itchy scalp. Using castor oil can help get rid of these issues.

Castor oil is anti fungal and antibacterial. It can fight pathogens and microorganisms causing the infection.

Prevents Premature Graying

If your hair has started showing the first signs of graying, applying castor oil can prevent your hair from losing more pigment.

The application of castor oil is a popular method to prevent premature graying. It helps your hair retain its pigment, and delays your hair turning gray or white.

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An answer to all hair woes, castor oil can be extremely helpful in treating dry and damaged hair.

Jamun is commonly known as Indian berry, black berry or black plum. It is a tropical fruit available during the summer season in India. Jamun has amazing health benefits as it is antibacterial, carminative, anti-scorbutic and diuretic properties.

For Diabetic Patients: Jamun and its benefits: Jamun does miracle on diabetic patient as it has anti- diabetic properties. Both Jamun fruit and leaves are good for diabetic patient. Jamun has the ability to convert starch into energy which automatically cut shorts the sugar content in body. The major symptom for diabetic patients that includes frequent urination and thirst is also reduced through this fruit. The decoction of the bark and powdered seed is good in the treatment of diabetes. The extract of the bark, seeds and leaves helps in reduction of frequent urination rate. Jamun seeds powder contains jamboline, a type of glucose, which helps to control the conversion of starch into sugar.

For Stomach Ulcers:

Jamun has carminative, anti-scorbutic and diuretic properties that helps in treatment of digestive disorders. Chewing and eating jamun leaves helps in treating of diarrhea and ulcers. Jamun prevents necrosis and fibrosis. Due to presence of bio-chemical and phytochemical substance like polyphenol, the black plum acts like as anti-cancer substance.

Jamun seeds powder

For Oral Health: Chewing jamun leaves not only strengthens teeth but also helps to get rid of gum diseases. Boil jamun bark in water and use it for gargaling and store it in a bottle, this works as amazing mouth wash and also helps in prevention of gum diseases and mouth ulcers.

For Beauty and Skin: Jamun pulp and seeds powder are very effective to get rid of acne, pimples, oily skin, blemishes and wrinkles. Jamun seeds extract applied on the face have the ability to remove pimples, acnes and control oil secretion. It also has a great anti-ageing property.

Jamun is also rich in iron which helps to increase the hemoglobin count and hence helps in blood purification therefore maintains a healthy heart. The potassium content in blood also helps in regulation of heart disease such as stroke and high blood pressure.

Jamun also cures asthma and cough. It is also beneficial in treating of piles and hemorrhoids.

What is pcod? Poly Cystic Ovarian Disease is most commonly prevailing in women with endocrine pcod to be the most common in all other types. Poly Cystic is the term used when the ovary get enlarged than the usual shape and becomes denser developing many smaller cysts at the outer layer. Pcod occurs when the male hormone in the body increases thus leading to hormonal imbalance, which can be due to higher level of androgen or estrogen in body. Hormonal imbalance even leads to irregular menstrual cycle, facial hair growth, acne and pimples. This may also lead to infertility due to lack of ovulation.

Other names for PCOD are Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) or the Stein-Leventhal syndrome.

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Symptoms of Pcod

Pcod has been so common that every 1 women out of 10 is found of suffering from this disease. The other symptoms include:
– irregular menstrual flow
– abnormal facial hair growth
– pimples and acnes
– dark patches on neck and back
– hormonal imbalance
– high insulin level may also increase the male hormone level in body

Treatment
– Weight Loss: Weight loss is the most effective way to start with the treatment of Pcod. It is always advised to go for an aerobic workout such as walking, swimming and jogging. This will lead in efficient way of weight loss and hence proves to be effective.

– Ovulation: Triggering on ovary to ovulate can only occur if the male hormone is suppressed efficiently and female hormone secretion balances.

– Unwanted hair growth: removal of unwanted hair growth through suppression of male hormone such as androgen, testosterone can be achieved through intake of birth control pills containing co-cyprindiol, Dianette, Marvelon and Yasmin.

Vitamins beneficial for Pcod

Vitamin D: deficiency of vitamin D can lead to insulin resistance and hence the chances of ovary cyst formation increases. In order to avoid this condition, sufficient amount of vitamin D intake is necessary.